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HER Number:

MDV56268

Name:

Exeter Airfield Dispersed Site 8

Summary

A Second World War military site (Dispersed Site 8) for accommodation for RAF Exeter is visible as a range of structures on aerial photographs of 1944 onwards, to the southwest of Southwood Cross. The Ordnance Survey 2015 MasterMap show two buildings of this former site are extant.

Location

Grid Reference:

SY 020 932

Map Sheet:

SY09SW

Admin Area

Devon

Civil Parish

Aylesbeare

Civil Parish

Rockbeare

District

East Devon

Ecclesiastical Parish

AYLESBEARE

Ecclesiastical Parish

ROCKBEARE

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

Old DCC SMR Ref: SY09SW/92/1

Monument Type(s) and Dates

DISPERSED SITE (World War II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD (Between))

Full description

APH, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV124984.

Probable dispersed accommodation site of raf exeter. Group of at least 16 small curved roof huts. With associated buildings including 5 blast shelters. Recorded on raf 1947 ap (aph).

A Second World War military site (Dispersed Site 8) for accommodation for RAF Exeter is visible as a range of structures on aerial photographs of 1944 onwards, to the southwest of Southwood Cross. The former site occupies an area of approximately 1.08 hectares of fairly level land within two adjoining agricultural fields, on the southern side of an un-numbered road, from which the site was accessed. The site, which lies approximately 1.5km to the east of the main airfield site, is characterised by a number of nissen huts, as well as pitched-roof structures and a number of possible sewage tanks. The site is interconnected with a series of trackways. There are also a number of other such dispersed sites within the immediate vicinity, for example to the east (Dispersed Site 6) and north (Dispersed Site 5). By 1966, the site has been largely dismantled and cleared, although several buildings remain upstanding. The Ordnance Survey 2015 MasterMap show two buildings of this former site are extant.

Ordnance Survey, 2015, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV357601.

Two structures remain extant on the Ordnance Survey MasterMap.

Sources / Further Reading

Migrated Record: APH.

Aerial Photograph:

Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1946 - 1949. Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Digital).